9 years
My right joint is NINE years old, I can hardly believe it because it has been so long. I'm so glad that my joints have a much longer life span that what my surgeon told me. When my right joint was replaced I was told that it had a life expectancy of around 10-15 years and at 36 years old I would likely need to have it replaced a few times in my life. Now that they joints have been around longer, the new projected time is that it should hopefully (without complications) last my lifetime. The surgery for my right joint went about as textbook perfect as you could get. The night of surgery I was using my Therabite and I was able to eat cheesecake from the diner next door. I stayed two nights in the hospital, mostly because we had to drive home two hours away and I was terrified of the pain that I would be in. I was in such agony before the surgery that none of the narcotics I had been prescribed were helping the pain. As it turned out, I stayed on narcotics less than a week foll...